Georg Tannstetter

Georg Tannstetter (April 1482 – March 26?, 1535), also called Georgius Collimitius, was a humanist teaching at the University of Vienna. He was a medical doctor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and the personal physician of the emperors Maximilian I and Ferdinand I. He also wrote under the pseudonym of "Lycoripensis"http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~ndb/ndbvoll.html?inpAuswahl%5B%5D=8606. His Latin name "Collimitius" is derived from limes meaning "border" and is a reference to his birthtown: "Rain" is a German word for border or boundary.

Selected works

• Librum consolatorium contra opiniones de diluvio et aliis horrendis periculis anni 1523, Vienna 1523. A tract to counter the Flood hysteria of that year.
• Viri Mathematici
• Tabula Hungarie ad quatuor latera, Ingolstadt 1528. Map of Hungary.
• Artificium De Applicatione Astrologiae ad Medicinam..., 1531.